Today I spent time with my mom. She's been out of state visiting my brother and his in-laws for the past three weeks. So we had lunch, got a froyo for dessert at Yogurt Xplosions, hung out at Target and World Market, went to see the open caption... Read more

So I'm home instead of traveling. Yippee!
The guys took a road trip. Long story, but I'm quite okay with it. Got a lot to do, so need to get to bed and get some sleep so I can get started tomorrow!
Went to one of my favorite Mediter... Read more

but here is what she did:
(and I can't remember enough of that poem or song to go into phrasing the rest of my day into the same style, so if you're old enough to recognize it, sorry, that parody breaks down now!!)
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This was such a disjointed day... taking hubby over to shop to drop his truck to get a new door release knob thingy (the thing that lets him get OUT of the truck instead of having to roll down the window and reach over and open the door from the... Read more

I need to exercise FIRST before getting online the rest of the many hours later to finish "doing" all the Sparkin' points... (I was hardly on FB at all...).
But I need to do something even if it is bedtime. My legs are giving me fits. I d... Read more

Hey! I rebounded today for 22 minutes. Didn't use a video - not enough room etc to set up in front of a monitor for now, plus my eyes were tired. So I just hooked my iPhone up to my old (busted) JVC boom box (consolation prize from my ex husband... Read more

Went to bed before midnight last night (SHOCK!).... woke up around 3 or so just coughing up crud and in general acting like an allergy fit. While sitting in the bathroom in another coughing fit, my lungs seemed to be reacting to the stench of... Read more

So much to do, and instead I sit here on the computer and play all the games and write emails and rack up points, but NO EXERCISE. Yet.
I keep seeing cool photos in other people's blogs and had never really paid attention to the orange box... Read more

I GOT RAINED ON in the parking lot at Target earlier this afternoon. I had parked clear out farthest away from the door so I could have a hike in, right?
Just a few minutes earlier, I was at a new Japanese grill & sushi place and about the... Read more

Yesterday I did about two hours or well more like three hours of cleaning inside, but I only counted 2 different chunks of time as "heavy cleaning" - busy cleaning out the little room where the porcelain throne resides. The "master bedroom bathr... Read more

I read this article that M77355 had quoted on her blog - and I wanted to copy some of this down for my own use - especially since some of the three points seemed to apply more pointedly to me than other points...
Here are excerpts from Chri... Read more

Rain Prayer Worked In Kansas, Then Once Again In West Texas
By William Lindsay White
Emporia Gazette, 1935
(note: This prayer was written in 1935 by W.L. White, editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette and son and successor to the Gazett... Read more

Okay so this is kinda dumb but as a kid, I always loved the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader uniforms. Those gals looked so hot!
So I'm thinking ... gotta make up some goals and rewards, right?
http://www.shopcowboys.com/catalog/bottoms,... Read more

I have mounds of clothes in my bedroom floor. I'm ashamed of it. I have mounds in front of the closet making it difficult to hang clothes back up inside after I do the laundry...
But truthfully I have TOO MANY CLOTHES.
Why? Most of the... Read more

My friend Patricia sent me this list back in 2006 when she was on NutriSystem. I was "always gonna" print it off to motivate me...so I could exercise and get this 120 pound "other woman" off my back and out of my pants...and just be the skinni... Read more